The Lives that Cotton Made
Cristina Rivera Garza's new book, Autobiography of Cotton, traces family history through the borderlands' cotton industry.
Ruiz Soto talks about a new region-wide survey on Central American migration and why people choose to migrate or stay home.
Southern Arizona’s legendary human rights champion rates the Biden administration’s first year at the border and suggests the time has come for a “quiet revolution.”
If the Texas border was a war zone … then the men who died on Oct. 25, 2012, were the war’s first known casualties.
Renowned author and scholar explains that it "is not a crisis of the border but one that is due to the border."
Solidarity with author, border scholar Harsha Walia and others suffering from a record-breaking deluge in British Columbia. And next week's news from The Border Chronicle.
How a Texas butterfly sanctuary became the center of the resistance against Trump, Steve Bannon and the right-wing agenda at the border.
Spector, who specializes in Mexican asylum cases, said he expects more human rights defenders will request asylum after border opens this month to people with travel visas.
How the border industry benefits from climate displacement and protects the polluters.
"There’s no clearly articulated vision of what the next two years is going to look like at the border," says the border policy expert of the Biden administration.
To create a safer, more sustainable world, the United States needs to divert border money toward climate action.
Kate Scott and other border residents are documenting the environmental damage. But Scott says they're left in the dark when it comes to the government's plan for remediation.
Independent news, culture and context from the U.S.-Mexico border.